Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People

Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, is more than a museum. This unique global institution tells the ongoing and extraordinary story of the Jewish people.

Beit Hatfutsot connects Jewish people to their roots and strengthens their personal and collective Jewish identity. Beit Hatfutsot conveys to the world the fascinating narrative of the Jewish people and the essence of the Jewish culture, faith, purpose and deed while presenting the contribution of world Jewry to humanity.

Beit Hatfutsot opened in 1978 thanks to the vision of Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress 1954-1977. In 2005, the Israeli Knesset passed the Beit Hatfutsot Law that defines Beit Hatfutsot as “the National Center for Jewish communities in Israel and around the world”.

Bosco

In today’s tech age, parenting is a complex task. Children are getting smartphones earlier than ever and parents’ ability to monitor their child’s relationships with the outside world is becoming more challenging. Many parents know this reality all too well, especially as the world becomes a more dangerous place.

Children need to feel safe and secure, but also have the freedom to thrive and develop their independence. That’s why we invented Bosco, a unique solution to a complex problem.

Bosco is a response to the realities of parenting today and gives parents the comfort of knowing their child feels both free and safe. Our application learns each child’s habits and notifies parents’ of deviations. In order to do this, Bosco monitors location, battery, social media habits, and more.

Daniel Rowing Centre

The Daniel Rowing Centre is Israel’s leading rowing facility. Located on the bank of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, it’s the home of Israel’s national rowing team, and a leader in rowing, kayaking and sailing classes for children and youth.

Competitive Rowing is a unique Olympic sport, with a growing popularity in Israel. Requiring technique, focus and precision, rowing shapes your body, builds stamina, and develops strength. In crew boats and skiffs, it’s the fastest muscle-powered boat in the world. The Daniel Rowing Centre offers top professional instructors, quality equipment, and a thriving social atmosphere – for kids, adults and premier athletes alike. Join us for exciting action on the water!

Open Sea Kayaking is challenging, and requires technique and courage. It’s ideal for leisure and touring, as well as extreme action & fun. The Daniel Rowing Centre is home to one of Israel’s leading kayaking clubs, headed by Rami Gil and his internationally qualified instructors. The club offers trial lessons and courses in Sea kayaks, Olympic kayaks and Surfski. Guided group excursions are scheduled throughout the week, and long distance adventures in Israel and abroad are organised several times a year.

Dragon Boats offer a ‘do it together’ team experience – all in a boat, operating it as one. It’s a unique team and leadership development platform, for both personal and group skills. The Yarkon River offers an unforgettable city-nature adventure. Suitable for both large groups and small teams. Pupils, students, Hi-Tech firms, Banks, IDF and police units, families, tourists – join us for an unforgettable outing!

9 years ago we launched a program for youth at risk and with special needs. We named it ‘Sea of Friends’. Combining emotional experiences in the open sea, and processing them with cognitive tools, is at the heart of this program. Each meeting integrates three parts: An opening workshop, a nautical activity in the boats, and a processing workshop. We also developed unique programs for people with disabilities: visually impaired, Parkinson’s sufferers, mental illnesses, autistic children, and breast cancer survivors. Hundreds of participants later, it’s time to tell and share. Partly because, yes, we’re proud, but mostly so that you will help us reach more audiences – more groups of kids and juveniles who could benefit, more people with special needs who can be included.

First Step Center

Our Mission is Treating and guiding parents of babies and children with developmental delays and special needs. The First Step center works with more than 400 babies and infants per month, through workshops or private meetings. The center is located in a perfect location only 20 minutes drive from the Ben-Gurion International airport, and 10 minutes drive from the Tel Aviv beach.

Owner at Gitta Bags

16 years ago, when I first became a mother, I got a diaper bag when I purchased a carriage. Only problem? It did not fit my needs as a mom. I was hoping to find a diaper bag that will make my life easier while on the go, and was disappointed to learn my dream diaper bag did not exist. So what’s an industrial designer to do? I just decided to create that very bag myself. Gittabags’ first diaper bag entered the market at 2001 and was welcomed by enthusiastic parents, whom were desperately looking for a diaper bag that combines convenient solutions with a fashionable look. A combination of functionality and luxury, if you will. I’ve been blessed with 4 wonderful children, whom have provided a lot of inspiration and ideas over the years. I’m driven by the challenge to provide better quality solutions and improve the lives of parents everywhere.

Lunada – Children’s Museum

Lunada is an experiential museum, the first of its kind in Israel. Innovative, interactive and fun for the whole family, encouraging activity and learning for all ages at an international level.

We would like to invite you, children and adults, to come and share a special, colorful, emotional, educational and innovative experience that will leave you thirsty for more.

The museum is housed in a 4,000 sq.m, 3-story facility that includes eight knowledge spaces with over 50 exhibits and installations in addition to unique outdoor areas. Each area features a different aspect of the world we live in and allows children to experience the various layers of reality and to discover themselves and their place in personal life, family life, public and social lives, as individuals and as part of a group.

Through play in the museum’s unique areas, children are exposed to significant parts of their own world and practice important aspects of daily life such as time management, money and food, experiencing situations of interpersonal communication, meeting the world of culture and art, the solar system and unique features of planet Earth.

mifold

Hi, I’m Jon, the inventor of mifold, The Grab-and-Go Booster Seat. When my four children were small, we lived in America. Our children were being driven everywhere by other people as well as ourselves.

Car safety is important to us and we wanted to make sure that the kids always had the correct car seat, but we often found that booster seats were not available; especially when we were carpooling with other families.

So, I thought, if I could make a booster that was really small and really tough, that could easily be taken everywhere, then our children would always be safe, no matter whose car they are in.

And we’ve done it, mifold is mighty small and mighty strong. mifold is the most advanced, compact and portable booster seat in the world.

It’s more than ten times smaller than a regular booster and it’s just as safe. We call it the ‘Grab-and-Go’ Booster seat.

Owner at Sarit Shani Hay Store

As an artist and designer I engage in a wide range of fields and combine diverse disciplines. My work is layered, ranging from object making to the creation of spaces and environments. My work is motivated by the profound need to reformulate things.
I create an aesthetic world around me, using design as an excuse. In fact, it is a channel through which I constitute a world for myself. Art is a type of longing, a never-ending attempt to reconstruct and revive, a yearning for an unattainable world. After spending several years abroad (in New York, London, and Africa) and having received a post-graduate diploma from London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design, I returned to Israel and launched a design studio in Tel Aviv. Childhood has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration. My daughter’s birth and the desire to design for her were a type of rebirth for me, in which I found my calling. I believe that the environment children grow up in is the soil on which their sensibilities develop, and that childhood should be celebrated! Over the years I have expanded my work to other areas of design, from intimate spaces to public projects. The studio specializes in design of pedagogical environments, interior design, custom made furniture for kids and grown ups, alike.

Sarit Shani Hay Store

Sarit Shani Hay is a design studio for playful living for toddlers, kids, teens and adults. A visit to Shani Hay Studio reveals a world of color, craftsmanship and wit, with eclectic references to comic books, fairy tales, modernist designers and African art. Shani Hay’s designs afford a rich space of imagination, combining functionalism with humor, creating enchanting interiors. Working with a range of materials, textures and detailing, Shani Hay melds art and design for the intimate spaces of our daily-life, celebrating the joy of childhood for kids and adults alike. The studio preserves popular traditions of domestic production with new materials, affording a unique design approach. Shani Hay Studio was launched in 1995 in Tel-Aviv and since then, it has become Israel’s leading interior and furniture design studio, offering comprehensive interior design, along with custom furniture and accessories. In recent years,the studio has specialized its endeavors into the public sphere, with projects such as kindergartens, kids corners in hospitals and libraries for children. The studio’s designs for kids spaces have been a first harbinger and a revolutionary precedent in the design of public spaces for children.

Save a Child’s Heart

Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is an Israeli-
based international, non-profit organization. We are known worldwide for our commitment to saving lives by improving the quality of cardiac care for children from developing countries and creating centers of medical competence in these countries.

Save a Child’s Heart provides life-saving cardiac surgery and other lifesaving procedures at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel. Our doctors and nurses also hold preoperative and follow up cardiology clinics in Israel and abroad on a weekly basis. Save a Child’s Heart offers a comprehensive training program within Israel for doctors and nurses from developing countries, and leads surgical and teaching missions to our partner countries. To date, we have saved the lives of more than 4,000 children from 51 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and throughout the Middle East. By mending hearts, regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality, or financial status, we contribute to a more peaceful and productive world; a happier, healthier world, and a better world for all children, and their families.

Director at First Step Center

Shai is the man behind the First Step method; he created the method and applies it. He is an expert in infant and child development, and he is a senior teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. Over years working with adults and children, Shai learned about the relation between infant development and the course of life as a child and adult. Those insights, combined with his hands-on experience as a father of three, led him to create this unique method that helps parents fully implement their babies’ motoric and developmental abilities. Shai is renowned in the field of child development, and is an accurate diagnostician with powerful intuition. A veteran consultant, he appeared regularly on a panel of child experts in an Israeli morning TV programme.

Over his 25 year-career, Shai has diagnosed and successfully treated hundreds of children with special needs and their families. He founded and directs the First Step College, which trains hundreds of infant development therapists. Shai heads the centre’s team of experts, and his involvement is reflected directly and indirectly in each diagnostic and therapeutic process. He is the professional manager of the First Step Centre which works with babies and children from birth. Every month, over 400 infants attend the centre.

Story Gardens in Holon

The Story Garden is a unique project of environmental sculpture, in which works inspired by beloved Hebrew children’s stories were commissioned from top Israeli artists and then placed in green spaces throughout the city. This ongoing venture – the latest Story Garden was opened in 2014 – is a huge hit with both local families and visitors. Holon thus joins the list of world cities that boast projects of museum-level landscape artwork. Such projects include works in Efteling in the Netherlands, the sculpture garden by widely known artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Italy, the Tivoli Park story corners and the story gardens in the Disneyland Resort in Paris.

Co-Founders at PlayPlus

Founders of Playplus: Playplus specializes in developing content and interactive spaces, which encourage children and their families to explore and learn through play. The Company has set a focus to promote multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning through interactive means which enable anyone to learn in their own way and pace. The company believes that edutainment is the key for learning through play.

Tamar Hadar:

Tamar Hadar is a professional marketing specialist with domestic and international success in operations and strategic planning in startups and multinational organizations. Tamar specializes in marketing, business development, promotions, sales development and client relations since 1998.
Tamar served as a senior director of global sales & marketing at Medinol, was a product manager at J&J and served as a planning and business development specialist at Eurotrust Financial services, Israel. Tamar also worked as a hi-tech sector marketing manager at Ernst Young.
Tamar is an active volunteer in the MBF, Macaabi World Union’s Business Forum; and volunteers in several social organizations.
Tamar received an MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center-Wharton program and holds a BA in International Relations and Political Sciences from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Efrat Adiv:

Efrat Adiv is a content creator and marketing specialist, with over 16 years of experience in leading content theme based ventures, from their seed stage until they are fully operational and gain market prominence.

Efrat served as the VP of Marketing and sales at Dyada, a company that specializes in childhood and parenting related solutions. Previously she was Sales and Marketing director of Foodart, a leading Israeli catering company, that introduced a new concept of dining in Israel. Efrat has an extensive knowledge of the media and Internet industry, that she gained while working at Keshet, the major Israeli commercial TV franchise, and as Marketing Communications manager of the Channel 10 Television.

Education credentials include an MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center-Wharton Program and a BA in Business and Media from the College of Management in Tel Aviv.

The Israel Children’s Museum

The Israeli Children’s Museum is an educational-cultural institution providing unique learning experiences which are one of a kind in Israel. Since its opening in 2001, more than two million visitors of all ages have visited the museum. The museum offers visitors a variety of activities which share the common feature of adventures that incorporate emotional intelligence, education for tolerance and acceptance of the other. All activities are guided and require pre booking. The Israeli Children’s Museum is about creating tolerance and dialogue among all of Israel’s children. The use of adventures and exhibitions which are an experience rather than a static space is what makes the difference for all visitors, not just those under 12. The visit to the Israeli Children’s Museum in Holon is an unforgettable experience, and is designed to take the visitors on a fascinating adventure through the world of imagination and communication. Our Vision is that children and adults have the potential to be and learn almost anything via experience. They can learn how to address one another with respect and interest, understand the difficulties of others who live with disabilities and find new ways to communicate with those who are different. The Israeli Children’s Museum has set as a goal to promote tolerance, respectful dialogue and non-violent communication between all Israeli children of all backgrounds and ethnicities. Their respect for one another is the very heart of our future relations as a nation.

The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo

The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, also known as the Biblical Zoo, opened in Jerusalem’s Malha neighborhood in 1993, having been located in various locations in Jerusalem since 1941. The establishment of the zoo in its present form was made possible thanks to the generosity of Tisch family of New York, under the auspices of the Jerusalem Foundation. The dedication ceremony took place in the presence of the President of the State of Israel at the time, the late Chaim Herzog.

The Zoo was designed by Miller-Blum & Associates Landscape Architects, and was constructed by the Moriah-Jerusalem Development Corporation. Stretching across almost 100 acres, the Zoo is ranked year after year as one of the top tourist sites in Israel, attracting over 750,000 visitors annually. The Zoo’s scenic location in the Judean hills with its varied animal exhibits, draws people from all threads of Jerusalem’s vibrant social fabric – Jewish, Christian and Muslim; secular and religious: young and old; and tourists and locals. Thus the Zoo has become a bridge between communities. It is one of the few sites in Israel where everyone comes together and feels welcome.

The Zoo is a non-profit organization created by a partnership consisting of the Jerusalem Municipality, the Jerusalem Development Authority and the Jerusalem Foundation. The Zoo’s Board of Directors has distinguished individuals from local government, business and academia; and our Professional International Advisory Committee is comprised of leading nature conservationists from Israel and abroad. The Biblical Zoo receives no governmental or municipal operations subsidies. It is dependent on visitors for operational expenses and on friends in Israel and abroad for special capital projects, wildlife conservation and education programs.

Workshop with Tal Tenne Chechekes

My name is Tal Tene Chechkes. Designer and conceptual artist. I am an inventor, multidisciplinary, playful and innovative. I am a graduate and former lecturer in the Visual Communications Department at Bezalel . Jerusalem, Israel. During my studies at Bezalel, I received a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York, where I studied for a semester and specialized in designing objects in 3D. In recent years, alongside my work as a designer and artist, I have been running workshops to design invention and improvisation. My works have been exhibited in the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum and in galleries and exhibitions in Israel. Married happily, mother of four children and a dog.

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